From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19793 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2003 17:50:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19786 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2003 17:50:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO takamaka.act-europe.fr) (142.179.108.108) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 24 Feb 2003 17:50:20 -0000 Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 507) id 7E4E8D34B6; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:50:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:50:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Andreas Jaeger Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Status of Ada support in GDB? Message-ID: <20030224175019.GL910@gnat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00523.txt.bz2 Andreas, > Trying to debug some Ada problems in GCC I noticed that GDB comes with > Ada support files but does not link them at all, they just seem to be > there for cosmetic :-( Let me explain a bit the history behind these files, and why they are not linked in yet. We, at ACT, are the original authors of these files, and have been planning on submitting them for inclusion in the FSF tree as soon as possible. There is no doubt in our minds that this would be beneficial to everybody: the GDB community, the free software community, the Ada community, and also ACT itself. So we are trying very hard on our side to get this done. Unfortunately, due to commercial pressure and lack of resources, we haven't be able to get this done yet. So maybe a year ago, ACT made a "code dropping": our sources-du-jour were made available for download on the sources.redhat.com ftp site. The hope was that some people might find it useful, while we keep making progress on cleaning up our code to get it to a state where it would be acceptable for inclusion. Somebody outside of ACT actually volunteered to merge these changes into the FSF tree for us. He started by first sending a new patch that was this time against the current sources (instead of current against an old 5.1 snapshot). He then checked in the ada-* files, and started cleaning them up. The plan was for him to (more or less): cleanup these files, add the bits in the makefiles to compile them in, and then activate slowly all the ada functionality. Unfortunately, as it often happens, this volunteer found a day job, and found that he could not spend time on this task anymore. So ACT is picking up the task again. We are getting much closer to having something we can submit, one of our part-time consultant is working full-time (if I may say so) on it. In the meantime, could you try using the 5.1.1-based sources that we made available through sources.redhat.com? -- Joel